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Originally Posted by Psycho Dad
I know it probably shouldn't, but that dents my tinfoil hat. I didn't see in the MSNBC article where the officials were Identified. I hope this doesn't suggest that South Africans are going to become human guinea pigs.
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Of course they are. Thats how you do a study like this ethically.
The best way would be to round up 100 or so people, force 50 to take it and another 50 to not take it and see what happens when they get exposed. This leads to all sorts of issues with 'human rights' and such.
So instead you give it to a population where the people are more likely to get the disease and see if those on it have a lower rate of infection than those that don't. This is far less reliable for a number of reasons, but its that whole 'ethical' thing again.